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Hardcover. Editor(s): Marcus, Leonard S. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations (some col.), photographs. BIC Classification: AC; DSB. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 240 x 175 x 28. Weight in Grams: 859.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Candlewick Press,U.S. United States
Edition
Candlewick ed.
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780763635060
ISBN
9780763635060
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 25.16

Paperback. Beyond question Shelley scholars and 19th-century specialists will value this usefully annotated and carefully produced edition; it may also be that anyone would enjoy the stories themselves.. and the accompanying original engravings. -- Diane Johnson, Washington Post. Num Pages: 512 pages, 33, 33 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 37. Weight in Grams: 749.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Maryland
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801842184
ISBN
9780801842184
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.27

Hardcover. How did Byron become "Byron"? The author of this text locates one origin of the poet's personae in the dramatic recitations he performed at Harrow School, in this examination of the four critically formative years of Byron's public school experience. Throughout, the poet is recognized in the boy. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801863431
ISBN
9780801863431
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.99

Hardcover. The author reconstructs the relation of the novel to 19th-century law courts. He argues that the courts, newly fashioned as a site in which to orchestrate voices and reconstruct stories, arose as a cultural presence influencing the shape of the English novel. Num Pages: 216 pages, 10, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801867552
ISBN
9780801867552
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.54

The only full-length study of existentialism in America, this highly engaging and original work provides an invaluable guide to the history of American culture since the end of the Second World War. Num Pages: 368 pages, 18, 17 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; HBJK; HBLW; HPCF3; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 732.
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801870378
ISBN
9780801870378
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.42

Paperback. A collection of essays from feminist critics, each of which explores the history of the English novel, literature's place in cultural debate and women's studies. They begin with the fictions of the late 17th century and end with Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen. Editor(s): Backscheider, Paula R. Num Pages: 296 pages, 5, 5 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801870958
ISBN
9780801870958
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.79

Firmly establishing the importance of the topic for understanding eighteenth-century English literature and culture, her work is bound to spur further discussion of the significance of incest discourses in the early modern period and beyond. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801872044
ISBN
9780801872044
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.05

David Macey, Jr., " Et in Arcadia Ego?: Thomas Amory, Mary Hamilton, and the (Re)Construction of Arcadia"Howard Irving, "John Marsh and the Ancient-Modern Polemic"Amy Wyngaard, "Revising Rousseau: Young Legrand d'Aussy and the Challenge to Enlightenment Constructions of the Peasantry, 1787-1794" Editor(s): Mostefai, Ourida; Ingrassia, Catherine. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; AB; DSBD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801872563
ISBN
9780801872563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.72

Reading for Storyness combines cognitive science with literary theory to present a compelling argument for the uniqueness of the short story. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 418.
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801873980
ISBN
9780801873980
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.44

Surveying this expanded field of inquiry, Buckley weaves together a coherent formal genealogy of the drama during this period and offers a new, more continuous generic history of modern drama in its first and most turbulent phase of development. Num Pages: 208 pages, 9, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801884344
ISBN
9780801884344
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.82

Voluntary association and print culture helped these young New Yorkers, Waterman concludes, to produce a broader and more diverse post-revolutionary public sphere than scholars have yet recognized. Series: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History. Num Pages: 344 pages, 8, 8 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 612.
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801885662
ISBN
9780801885662
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.86

Presents essays that share a common concern with investigating Enlightenment categories of historical understanding and determining how these categories helped shape Enlightenment culture. This work addresses the question of how eighteenth-century writers make sense of the past for their own practical, aesthetic, and ideological purposes. Editor(s): Zionkowski, Linda; Thomas, Professor Downing A. Num Pages: 300 pages, 12, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; AB; DSBD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801887956
ISBN
9780801887956
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.08

Hardback. With his keen, original analysis of hitherto untapped literary, iconographical, and archaeological sources, Burgess adds greatly to our understanding of this archetypal mythic hero. Num Pages: 208 pages, 26, 23 black & white halftones, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBH; DSC; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801890291
ISBN
9780801890291
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.41

Synthesizing the histories of masculinity, manners, and radicalism, Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates offers a fresh perspective on the eighteenth-century aristocratic male. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801890888
ISBN
9780801890888
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.16

It will be a welcome addition to the library of any scholar of modernism and can easily be adapted for courses on Woolf and modern literature. Editor(s): Linett, Maren. Series: A Modern Fiction Studies Book. Num Pages: 464 pages, 17, 17 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 34. Weight in Grams: 726.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801891175
ISBN
9780801891175
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.32

Paperback. Considering the remarkable range of Johnson's reading, DeMaria discovers in one extraordinary career a synoptic view of the subject of reading. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801892424
ISBN
9780801892424
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.28

Harvey, Strolling Players in Albany, Montreal, and Quebec City, 1797 and 1810: Performance, Class, and EmpireWoodruff D. Smith, Corruption and Eighteenth-Century Social Science: Mapping the Space of Political Economy Editor(s): Zionkowski, Linda; Thomas, Professor Downing A. Num Pages: 312 pages, 12, 12 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; AB; DSBD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801892974
ISBN
9780801892974
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.23

Macpherson's original insights will have a broad and lasting impact on the study of the 18th-century novel. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801893841
ISBN
9780801893841
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.86

Includes essays that represent scholarship on the Enlightenment in Britain, Europe, and North America. Editor(s): Thomas, Professor Downing A.; Cody, Dr. Lisa Forman. Num Pages: 320 pages, 12, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; AB; DSBD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801894350
ISBN
9780801894350
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.08

The Birth of Comedy makes accessible for the first time the rich evidence for all aspects of classical Greek comedy. Editor(s): Rusten, Jeffrey S. Translator(s): Henderson, Jeffrey; Konstan, David; Rosen, Ralph M.; Rusten, Jeffrey S.; Slater, Niall W. Num Pages: 816 pages, 43, 42 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 187 x 260 x 59. Weight in Grams: 1598.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
816
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801894480
ISBN
9780801894480
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.84

Paperback. Featuring references to Classical mythology and science, star charts of the northern and southern skies, extensive notes, and an introduction to the work's stylistic features and literary reception, this dynamic work will appeal to students of Ancient Greece who want to deepen their understanding of the Classical world. Translator(s): Poochigian, Aaron. Series: Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity. Num Pages: 112 pages, 9, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 182.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801894664
ISBN
9780801894664
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99

The Novel and the Obscene challenges our vision of early twentieth-century America as sexually progressive by identifying a resonant silence at the heart of the modernist American novel-a narrative mode that renders censorship symbolic at the very moment of its legal demise. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804751872
ISBN
9780804751872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 75.21

This book brings to light the first Jewish fiction in French and reveals how the first generation of Jews born as French citizens used fiction as a laboratory for experimenting with modern forms of Jewish identity. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 567.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804763844
ISBN
9780804763844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.41

Hardcover. An introduction to contemporary Latin American narrative published in the 1970s, presenting ten major writers. Num Pages: 168 pages, Plans, transparencies, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; 3JJPL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Scarecrow Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810813595
ISBN
9780810813595
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.28

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